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CHAPTER XXII. ADA.
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She was now daily expected, the vessel1 in which she had sailed having landed at New York, and numerous preparations in honor of her arrival were in progress at Cedar2 Grove3, where she was evidently regarded as a person of consequence. The best chamber4 in the house was appropriated for her use; Mr. Delafield himself taking much interest in the arrangement of its furniture, and bringing over each morning fresh bouquets5 of flowers, which, in costly6 vases, adorned7 the apartment. Every one seemed anxious and expectant, save Jessie and Halbert, the former of whom did not wish her to come, as she took up so much of “Uncle Dick’s” time, while the latter openly avowed8 his dislike, saying, he wished she’d stay in Europe always.
As for myself, though there was no particular reason why I should do so, I dreaded11 her arrival, and when at last, word came to the schoolroom that she was in the parlor12, and the children must come down to see her, I stole out into the garden, in order that I might put off the interview with her as long as possible. I knew I must meet her at the supper table, and so after a time I went up to my room to dress, donning a plain white muslin, which I had often been told became me better than aught else I could wear. Before my toilet was finished, little Jessie came in and 256insisted upon twining among my curls a few simple buds, which, she said, looked “mighty nice,” adding, as she stepped back a pace or two to witness the effect, “I think you are a heap prettier than Ada; but Uncle Dick don’t, ’cause I asked him, and he said ‘Of course Ad was the handsomest.’ Hal says how he’s her beau, and I reckon he is, for he kissed her like fury!”
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